I think the idea of changing partners sounds cool. It even looks pretty nice.But...

The whole Kickstarter presentation is 1:1 Yooka Laylees. They´re saiying, it´s inspired, but...no.Just take the Yooka Laylee presentation, changing colors and some word´s is not an inspiration at all.

The game itself looks and sounds pretty cool, but there is a bad taste to it, when i´m on their Kickstarter Page. I mean, come on guys! Even the reward and "where goes the money" thing looks like a bootleg. :S

There is even a "playhouse demo reward"...

But enogh rant, to be honest, i will have an eye on this, because it do looks like fun to me.

Yeah I just discovered this myself... Sounded interesting at first, but I got more and more grossed out the further I looked into it.

I'm all for more 3D platformers on the market. But this one makes little to no attempt to hide the fact that it is nothing but a tasteless rip-off of Yooka-Laylee/Banjo-Kazooie. Not to mention the dev team just seems... sketchy. They've been called out numerous times on Twitter but respond with, "how can we be a rip-off of a rip-off?" The difference is that the Yooka-Laylee dev team is actually composed of many of the SAME developers who worked on BK and BT. So it's less ripping-off and more taking back what was theirs in the beginning.

The Kewpie-Jazzy team is younger, inexperienced, and moreso blatantly copying Yooka-Laylee and Banjo-Kazooie than merely taking inspiration from it.

The developers are certainly not able to articulate their ideas in a very tasteful way, at this point. It's unpleasant to see a "dream protect" look so unplalatably.

Yeah, not sure if "grossed out" is even a proper phrase, haha.

I'm sorry, it just really rubs me the wrong way when people don't seem to realize or care about how obviously they're copying another person's work, and it's even worse when they are asking for money to do it. It's sad, too, because this project could have been something interesting if the "developers" had actually made an attempt to make it look like something that we aren't already getting. It's one thing to be inspired by something and to build off of that inspiration, but Kewpie-Jazzy is not that.

Beyond that, the copied kickstarter, video (complete with cringey narration), pictures and poor use of grammar (I realize English isn't their first language) really gives the project an unprofessional and "scammy" appearance.

Definitely a ripoff and I'm not gonna back it but I definitely feel sorry from them after lurking some in the (now offline) discord room they set up. Lots of people really railing on them, some justified but a lot just people being angry and mean.

Yeah, this is just bizarre. I'm sure it's a scam, and a poorly done one at that. If it were their dream project, they picked an awfully convenient time to unveil it. Some of the models/assets really clash aesthetically; it's almost like everything aside from the main character models are stock/pre-made...I wouldn't be surprised if Grant hadn't seen this much when he agreed, and dropped out with the official unveiling. I bet it gets taken down soon enough.

ShanPen wrote:It looks HIDEOUS! And does anyone else find it insanely creepy that the cat has human female boobs?

I despise cartoon animals with boobs. She looks like one of those cringeworthy OCs you see on DeviantArt.But, even if she didn't have boobs, the design of her just looks yuck. She has a very unpleasant shade of pink, the jean-shorts aren't attractive in the slightest, the fact she has human legs instead of cat legs makes her running on all-fours look extremely strange/scary, and in my opinion, she is too tall to be in a cartoony 3D platformer. Tall characters that run fast and jump twice their height make 3D platforming very awkward to me. (Also, she wearing a baseball cap backwards...? Seriously?)

I really don't want to be mean towards indie devs, especially as new and young as these guys are, but I think they should go back to the drawing board and get a few new artists and give this game a new style, and give these characters some more expressive animations. As it is, it completely lacks any personality and looks like a cheap, poor attempt at capitalising on Yooka Laylee's crowdfunding, which in turn has given it a mediocre reputation. Sorry for my pessimistic tone, but those are my honest feelings.

All the best to these developers, truly. I love the idea of swapping partners, but everything else I can't help being cynical about, and needs improving.There's my constructive criticism. Hopefully they won't sue me like another certain indie dev that had their whole library taken off Steam...

Octopeart wrote:Yeah, this is just bizarre. I'm sure it's a scam, and a poorly done one at that. If it were their dream project, they picked an awfully convenient time to unveil it. Some of the models/assets really clash aesthetically; it's almost like everything aside from the main character models are stock/pre-made...I wouldn't be surprised if Grant hadn't seen this much when he agreed, and dropped out with the official unveiling. I bet it gets taken down soon enough.

I think it is probably more just naivety and inexperience pushing a lot of this stuff. They all seem fairly young and all probably genuinely think they are doing things correctly and can't see that they haven't "drawn from" Yooka-Laylee's pitch but have done a sub par job of aping it in its entirety. I think they might be stock assets in a lot of places, but it is similarly likely they just don't have the skills to give everything a cohesive look.

I also think probably Grant agreed to compose for them, contingent on successful funding, because it is an easy thing to say yes to a paid project as a freelancer. If you saw it when it first went up, his name and face were plastered all over that thing, to the point where it might as well have been named "Grant Kirkhope Presents: Kewpie Jazzy." They were suggesting their team had a Rare Veteran on it, seemingly without knowing that contracting a freelancer isn't the same thing as having them as a core member of your team. All of that is just speculation, but I think it is a pretty safe bet he just didn't want people to associate him with a kickstarter he really has nothing to do with, more than him not finding the quality of the work acceptable.

Either way I don't necessarily think it is a "take the money and run" scam situation, just an ill conceived campaign that they will probably benefit from the failure of, in the long term.

The game shows some promise in gameplay but lacks appeal altogether, there's no creativity in ripping assets and adding a few gimmicks of your own.

Even the way they want to present their campaign seems like a rip-off.

The part where the desert is shown the objects are cluttered in a messy way.

Also, I do not trust the developer to actually finish this thing to the end. He's inspired by a game he wants to copy to his own imagination. I doubt he has the experience or the team building skills to make his dream a reality.Not in the way he currently shows off at least.

Meh, I'll watch and see what happens :p dreaming is good and all but setting your aim to high in the first place doesn't seem like a good idea.